Our Trustees

The Board is currently made up of six Trustees who were appointed for their passion for the historic environment and for their commitment to the charitable aims of the Foundation.

Fabian Richter, Chair

Fabian is the chair of trustees and the co-founder of Distributor Due Diligence Ltd, a financial services start-up company which enables fund managers and intermediaries to conduct due diligence on the global distributors of their funds. He is a Trustee of the Create Streets Foundation.

Sam Swire

Sam is an Executive Director of John Swire and Sons Ltd in London, and Chair of Swire Shipping. He is a Non-Executive Director of Cathay Pacific Airways. He has a degree in Modern History from the University of Oxford. He joined the Swire Group in Hong Kong in 2003 and has worked with the group in Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Sri Lanka, and London.

Sat Singh

Sat is the Founder and CEO of the Renaissance Foundation, a specialist London charity supporting young people facing educational, social and emotional challenges, such as young carers and young patients suffering from life-long/life-limiting illnesses. Sat established the Foundation in 2006. It received recognition through the Anne Frank Award in 2007 and the Marks and Spencer Business in the Community Sieff Award in 2011.

Purnima Mookerjee

Purnima is a Managing Director at Coutts & Co (Part of NatWest Banking Group) where she is Head of Data Platforms. Her previous roles include being Director of Strategy for Russell Investments and being a Manager at McKinsey & Company. Purnima is passionate about broadening leadership impact in the Not-For-Profit sector, and driving data driven insights and decision making more broadly. She is also an advocate of gender diversity in leadership development as well as being active in the philanthropy sector and charitable giving.

Will Stratton-Morris

Will has over 30 years of experience in branded customer facing service businesses, with expertise in transformational change, digitisation and multi-site businesses. He is the CEO of Caffe Nero and non-executive Chair of Iduna, an EV charging business owned by Octopus Energy. He has previously held senior roles at Southern and Scottish Energy, InterContinental Hotels Group, British Airways and the Walt Disney Company.